Searching for associated tasks

When a task becomes unresponsive you can perform a search to identify all associated tasks in the CICSplex. Using the search results you can identify the task that is causing the problem, and other tasks that will be affected when you take corrective action. An associated task is one that has the same NETUOWID or TRNGRPID.

About this task

This procedure describes how to view associated tasks and identify the one in error.

Procedure

Identify the unresponsive task using the Tasks or the Task Associations view.
Right-click the task and click Search > Associated Tasks.

Results

The results are displayed in the Search view. The view shows all associated tasks. Review the tasks to determine the probable cause of the wait and take corrective action.

The layout of the task in the Search view depends on the information that is available for the tasks. In the first screen capture you can see the following information:

The three tasks in the view are all related, that is they have the same NETUOWID or TRNGRPID.
Task 000034 contains previous hop data indicating that it was started by task 0093712, so task 0000344 is indented to indicate the parent-child relationship.
Task 0093711 is greyed out indicating that the task is no longer running.

A screen capture of the Search view showing the task association search results with three tasks, the last two of which are related.

In the next screen capture you can see the following information:

All three tasks in the view are related, that is they have the same NETUOWID or TRNGRPID.
There is no previous hop data so it is not possible to identify any parent-child relationships between the tasks.

A screen capture of the Search view showing the task association search results where all three tasks are at the same hierarchical level indicating that they are related, but without any previous hop data no parent-child relationship can be identified

You can run the search again by clicking the Search again icon , or by clicking F5.